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  <section id="cmake-kate-files-mode">
<span id="variable:CMAKE_KATE_FILES_MODE"></span><h1>CMAKE_KATE_FILES_MODE<a class="headerlink" href="#cmake-kate-files-mode" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.27.</span></p>
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<p>This cache variable is used by the Kate project generator and controls
to what mode the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">files</span></code> entry in the project file will be set.  See
<span class="target" id="index-0-manual:cmake-generators(7)"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake-generators.7.html#manual:cmake-generators(7)" title="cmake-generators(7)"><code class="xref cmake cmake-manual docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake-generators(7)</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>Possible values are <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTO</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SVN</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">GIT</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HG</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">FOSSIL</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LIST</span></code>.</p>
<p>When set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LIST</span></code>, CMake will put the list of source files known to CMake
in the project file.
When set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SVN</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">GIT</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HG</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">FOSSIL</span></code>, CMake will set
the generated project accordingly to Subversion, git, Mercurial
or Fossil, and Kate will then use the respective command line tool to
retrieve the list of files in the project.
When unset or set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTO</span></code>, CMake will try to detect whether the
source directory is part of a git or svn checkout or not, and put the
respective entry into the project file.</p>
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